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The Snark Queen of Shidei

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The Snark Queen of Shidei is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mei with an iron fist, and remarkable for its national health service, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 9.617 billion Shidei are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Isnaheim. The average income tax rate is 88.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Shidei economy, worth a remarkable 1,003 trillion cookies a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 104,396 cookies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Pretty hair and tight shorts are considered to be essentials for successful political lobbyists, boys who even ask about cheerleading are placed on the Sex Offenders Register, children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet, and the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shidei's national animal is the amano shrimp, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Tribadism.

Shidei is ranked 23,775^th in the world and 57^th in The Western Isles for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.82 law-abiding acts per hour.

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